VCAT

VCAT WIN FOR MIDDLE PARK HOTEL SEES BLUE SKY

Posted on July 31st, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
AVC’s Middle Park Hotel is moving up, hurdling a protracted battle with locals in VCAT for expansion and a rooftop terrace in the ‘quaint’ central Melbourne precinct. National pub operator Australian Venue Co looked to undertake one of its signature

ROMSEY REVIVAL TRIGGERS COUNCIL ANTI-GAMING CRUSADE

Posted on March 22nd, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A Victorian club has reignited a 20-year debate and prompted a battle with Council by applying to revive the closed Romsey Hotel, incorporating the installation of 50 gaming machines. Romsey Football Netball Club (RFNC) submitted an application to the Victorian

CORKMAN ‘COWBOYS’ TO REBUILD HISTORIC PUB

Posted on November 10th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
After years of legal disputes, massive fines and threat of prison, the owners of the site of the former and much-disputed Corkman Irish Pub at Carlton will build a replica of the historic watering hole they illegally demolished. Late 2014

CORKMAN PUB COWBOY DEVELOPERS OFF TO JAIL

Posted on December 18th, 2020 by Clyde Mooney
The so-called ‘cowboy’ developers that illegally demolished Melbourne’s historic Corkman’s Irish Pub have been jailed for a month and ordered to pay over $400,000 in fines and legal costs. In 2016 news broke of a fire in the pub, which

VIC REGULATORS BLOCK ALH EGM APPLICATION

Posted on January 24th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has upheld a ruling by VCGLR to deny ALH the 40 EGMs applied for at the Commercial Hotel, South Morang. Australian Leisure & Hospitality (ALH) had requested the gaming machines for the Commercial, which

COUNCIL TWICE OVERRULED BLOCKING APPLICATION FOR MORE POKIES

Posted on October 17th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
The Langwarrin Hotel will go ahead with its twice-approved additional poker machines, despite continued cries by a dissenting Frankston Council for more power. Beretta’s Langwarrin Hotel in Langwarrin is a large-format club-style hotel with a broad offering of dining, entertainment,